D Block Physical Geography - Today we'll be looking at streams and drainage basins. You'll need to work on a few definitions, a diagram, and questions in your Geosystems Core textbook. The Canadian Atlas online has a great section on drainage basins .
In order to understand streams we'll watch a Bill Nye the Science Guy episode on the topic - Rivers & Streams (#209). Splash down a rapid river with Bill Nye the Science Guy and explore how ecosystems work and why they are important to our environment. From waterfalls and dams, to the depths of the Grand Canyon, this is one wet and wild ride. This week's music video showcases the Talking Headwaters singing "Take Me to the River
In Canada more than 200 languages were reported in the 2021 Canadian Census of Population as a home language or mother tongue (a mother tongue is the language first learned at home in childhood and still understood). Quite obviously as a mother tongue, English (20,107,200 speakers) and French (7,189,245 speakers) are the most widely spoken languages however Mandarin (679,255), Punjabi (666,585), Yue/Cantonese (553,380), Spanish (538,870), Arabic (508,410), and Tagalog/Filipino (461,150) are also widely spoken.
C Block Human Geography - Today we look at the Key Question: Where Are Languages Distributed? Ethnologue estimates that the world has an estimated 7,102 languages...11 of which are spoken by at least 100 million people each (including English with the others being German, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Bengali, Hindi, Japanese, Lahnda, and Mandarin).
In Canada more than 200 languages were reported in the 2021 Canadian Census of Population as a home language or mother tongue (a mother tongue is the language first learned at home in childhood and still understood). Quite obviously as a mother tongue, English (20,107,200 speakers) and French (7,189,245 speakers) are the most widely spoken languages however Mandarin (679,255), Punjabi (666,585), Yue/Cantonese (553,380), Spanish (538,870), Arabic (508,410), and Tagalog/Filipino (461,150) are also widely spoken.
More than 70 distinct Indigenous languages are currently spoken by First Nations people, Métis and Inuit in Canada and all Indigenous languages spoken in Canada are considered at risk, being classified as either vulnerable, definitely endangered, severely endangered or critically endangered. According to the 2021 Census, 148,895 people reported an Aboriginal mother tongue and just 85,835 people reported speaking an Aboriginal language most often or regularly at home (Language families include but are not limited to Algonquian, Inuit, Athapaskan, Salish, Tsimshian, Wakashan, Kutenai, Haida and Michif).
There were 180,085 First Nations people in British Columbia in 2021, of whom 14,595 could speak an Indigenous language well enough to conduct a conversation, down 7.1% from 2016. Over half (58.1%) of the First Nations people who speak an Indigenous language in British Columbia learned it as a second language later in life, up from 52.1% in 2016.
And for the 28,420 people who live in the City of Courtenay
You'll need to look at language families from pages 146-149 of the Cultural Landscape book in order to fill in a chart for me.
B Block Criminology - Remember, not all business is bad but we do need to understand the "corporate view" of white collar criminal activity. What is it that makes a successful business person and what kind of ethical behaviour is valued by corporate culture? To that end,
"What is "Churning"?
What is "Short and Distort"?
What is "Market Manipulation"?
And a Canadian case study...Bre-X Minerals Ltd. was a Canadian gold mining company that infamously defrauded investors by falsifying gold samples and misstating its available gold reserves. Read more about the story at Investopedia or at Business Insider or from the Calgary Herald. The story was actually turned into the 2016 movie Gold
And...
What is the "Profit Motive"
From the Harvard Business Review How to Scandal-Proof Your Company and What I’ve Learned About White-Collar Crime From GL Analytics Do Scandals & Fraud Come From Poor Culture?
And an interesting podcast Capitalisn’t: When the Profit Motive Kills
Don't forget You have four questions to answer for me:
1. What’s the psychology behind the con and what can we learn from it? (check out The 7 Psychological Principles of Scams: Protect Yourself by Learning the Techniques)
2. How does a con man identify a mark? (check out Maria Konnikova on How we Get Conned and her interview below)
3. What are the nine phases of a long-con game? (check out The 9 Stages of the Big Con and the 4 Phases of Small Value Fraud)
4. What is the one fact that instantly makes you harder to con? (check out Protect yourself from scams and fraud)
A Block Legal Studies - I need you to wrap up your work before tomorrow's test/quiz/twiz/quest thingy. I asked you to complete the following:
AAL p. 187
3. Why is it important for judges to be impartial?
4. Why is the role of a court recorder so important to the appeal process?
AAL p. 194
1. Describe the steps followed in jury selection.
2. Identify eight categories of people who are excluded from jury duty, and give one reason why you think each category is ineligible.
3. Explain the difference between a peremptory challenge and a challenge for cause.
After, remember I have a three page review key terms that you may use to assist you in getting ready for tomorrow.
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